In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge form and conventions of real media products?

Powder – Title big and bold to make it stand out. Colour is more of a tinted light blue to represent drugs-use and unnatural deviance.

Titles – Small but bold. This makes the title of the actors and director stand-out from the scene.

Location – Set mainly in a modern home. Made to seem unnaturally tidy for a couple of drug dealers to live in. This makes their ownership of the house questionable.

Costume/Props – Coke can used as a comical device as shown in the image. With this device used, the conventions of a normal crime film are then challenged making the story slightly bubbly.

Lighting – This lighting shown in the shot below was produced by a spotlight making the scene more distinguishable as an interrogation. This use of lighting follows the norms and conventions that a crime film should. 

Characterisation – The characters in this film have been developed with a more comedic characterisation to them. This turns the stereotypical view of a normal drug user/dealer on its head as most of them are never really viewed as bumbling idiots in this extent.

Camera Angles – The camera angle used in the shot below is a cut-away which helps to introduce the main protagonist of the film. The rest of the sequence is made up of more quick-cuts because it adds a sense of tension between the realities of what the characters don’t really see as danger.

Editing/Transitions – The editing in this sequence is mainly left normal with cuts between the characters conversation and the passing of the coke can as a cut-away. But for the flashback, we changed the colour scheme to black and white as we wanted to make the present and the past more of a contrast to show what is real. The transitions used are also white fades to help move from one memory to the next.

Genre – Our opening sequence quite quickly defines what the rest of the film will be like because of the use of black comedy humour with drug use on the side. Sections of the sequence which aid with this are when Arth was laughing at a blank TV, Jim getting coke instead of cocaine and when Arth forgets his keys. The characters were also characterised with comedic values to help this along and to make the comedy go with their bumbling qualities.